I'm looking forward to becoming older and quieter.
Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.
Clairvoyant, n. : A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
We simply argue that climate change consequences was one of the impacts, but interestingly enough, even though a major effort was made in 2008 to try and resurrect the problem over food, now the consequences of the civil war are making the situation even worse.
Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
I argue is that philosophers have had a tendency to present a kind of mystical view of the powers of reflection. Unreflective belief acquisition is seen in mechanistic terms, but when philosophers talk about reflection, it is as if reflective processes are not bound by the kinds of limitations which inevitably arise from being embedded within the same causal structure which governs unreflective belief acquisition.